Memorandum to DK [Dorothy Knaack], no date

DEATH, AFTER 4 YEARS, LAID TO RADIUM Bellevue Expert Completes Test and Insists Fatal Rays Killed Girl Factory Worker / Radium was directly responsible for the death of Amelia Maggia, four and a half years ago, Dr. Alexander re O. Gettler, of Bellevue Hospital, an- p nounced yesterday at completion of na his examination of her bones Miss Maggia was employed by the an United States Radium Corporation, C1) of Orange, N. J., at the time of -her death and handled a radium deriva- m tive in painting luminous figures on Ci watch and clock dials. The autopsy an was instigated by relatives contem- ne y plating a suit against the radium concern. S NO DOUBT OF CAUSE. Dr. Gettler told the New York y American yesterday that there was be no doubt Miss Magiga was killed so by the deadly rays. He said: tre .Emanation of the three death- he dealing rays was found in the th specimens I examined. Radioac- ort tivity was discovered in both the the electroscope and photographic tests." sag The body of Miss Maggia was ex- a e humed in October from a West bas Orange cemetery. The disinterrment was allowed by a court order on ap the plication by relatives of the dead sen girl. At that time attorneys for the Am radium corporation complained that, her death having occurred four and cal a half years ago, the suit had been outlawed by the statute of limita- tions. STATUTE POWER DENIED. Attorneys for the relatives con- tend that because of the strangeness of the malady the statute of limita- tions has no bearing on this case. Symptoms of radium poisoning are not discernable for two years after death occurs, it is said. Five other women, two of whom are sisters to the dead girl, are suing the company for $250,000 apiece. The sisters are Mrs. Albina Larice and Mrs. Quinta McDonald. The others are Mrs. Grace Gryer, Mrs. Katherine Shaub, of Orange, and Mrs. Edna Hussman, of Hillside. All claim they havembeen bedridden by 1. radium poisoni